A sperm whale recently washed up on a beach in South Africa, a strikingly rare occurrence that hasn’t happened in recent ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

Known scientifically as Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, this deep-sea creature was first identified in 1925 by zoologist Guy Robson after he found two of its tentacles in the stomach of a sperm whale ...

Birch Aquarium at Scripps is displaying the rare 11-foot oarfish found in Encinitas and explores the lore behind the creature ...

Come face to face with an 11-foot oarfish at Birch Aquarium's newest exhibit, exploring the myths and mysteries of these rare deep-sea giants.

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

In November, tens of thousands of male olive ridley sea turtles start congregating just 5km nearshore in Odisha, India. They ...

It's called Alicella gigantea, and it's the largest known species of amphipod, a shrimp-like species that is usually less ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny ...

The largest known species of amphipoda is believed to inhabit 59% of the planet’s deepest ocean regions, according to a ...